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He was kidnapped in 2011 and the last video he released was in 2012. he was a contractor for the agency international development at the time. he said his captors have agreed to let him have visits from his family if the u.s. releases unspecified prisoners. jamie: tens of thousands of families in america remain in the dark. an a cold all through the christmas holiday. gregg: new developments in the case after man accused of going on a deadly shooting rampage at one of america's deadliest airports. the administration is playing catchup. what this says about the lack of confidence and uncertaint...

As the nation's parks, my assumes, and memorials re-opened for business. >> how does it feel to be inside today? >> ask him. >> how does it feel to be inside today? >> awesome. >> reporter: employees are are back on the job after three weeks of forced time off. >> good to be back to work. >> reporter: on capitol hill where most members are fled for their home district, a furloughed staffer got the historic ohio clock ticking again. but as the vice president greeted returning epa employees with muffins, he warned all that time off would mean a backlog of paperwork. >> now they're back and hav...

>> now, don, there's tens of millions of dollars at stake here in the late night wars, and, obviously, one of the things going on, first with abc and now nbc playing catchup, there's an effort to go after the younger demographic. both jay leno and david letter less th -- letterman in their 60s. fallon, 48 years old. >> we like the young guys, they give us promise and hope. >> it's a long game they are playing at abc and nbc. >> jake tapper, thank you very much. we'll be watching you at the top of the hour. watch the full interview on "the lead," top of the hour, cnn, 4:00 p.m. eastern. happe...

He's a problem solver, someone who has shown the ability to work both sides. and i think a little less confrontational than governor christie. i think over the long run he might prove to be a very attractive candidate. but, again, you can't avoid making the tough decisions. on his immigration plan, he ducked the path to citizenship and that's key. there aren't going to be democratic votes granting immigration bill without a clear path to citizenship. so we have to figure out what's workable, what we give. we do border security, strong in return for a reasonable path to citizenship. that's the ...

Extremist groups. so they have globed on to these opposition groups and been very effective tool and very effective units for them in fighting. and that's been a problem. so we have seen over time that the proliferation of these groups across a whole segment of opposition groups that six months ago we would have said had no extremists in them. that's the huge problem that we're facing. it's a little bit of catch up today to say the front is a terrorist organization. i'm glad that we're there, path to recognition to try to get them to a better place about not using these extremist groups, but w...